9 highly anticipated new and returning shows to add to your 2022 watchlist

polygon.com:

This year has had plenty of great television, with new and returning shows alike delighting, surprising, and moving us. But the year’s not over yet. We’ve got our eye on these nine shows — seven new, and two old favorites coming back — that are slated to come out between now and the end of 2022.

This list features an exciting anthology series from Guillermo del Toro, an animated project by Scott Mescudi (also known as Kid Cudi), adaptations of the work of authors Ken Liu, Anne Rice, and Christopher Pike, as well as new entries in the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars universes.

Here are the shows we’re most excited for coming out before the end of 2022 and where you will be able to watch them, in order of expected release date.

Fans of Black Mirror and fans of Love, Death & Robots can find their meeting point in Pantheon, AMC’s first animated series. Based on a series of interconnected stories by The Grace of Kings author and The Three-Body Problem translator Ken Liu, the series follows a girl who comes in contact with an AI that claims to be her dead father uploaded into the net. Which may sound like a small, personal Black Mirror story, but AMC’s series summary suggests the show pivots into a global conspiracy “that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.” The animation on this one looks pretty choppy — it’s from Titmouse, the increasingly ubiquitous studio behind everything from Big Mouthto The Boys: Diabolical to Star Trek: Lower Decks to Critical Role’s The Legend of Vox Machina. But the heady conceptand the source material really snagged us and got our hopes up. For those who want an early sample, Liu — whose short story “Good Hunting” got an animated adaptation in season 1 of LD&R — suggests listening to Levar